Sentences with phrase «zoning plan»

It pays to check city zoning plans before buying a home too.
Traffic impact assessment is a key step in the process of work zone planning and scheduling for transportation agencies.
Of course, it'll take time to see if the ambitious marine zoning plan works as intended.
Researchers have created a «large - scale zoning plan'that aims to limit the environmental costs of road expansion while maximizing its benefits for human development.
Meanwhile, the advocacy group Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development has also criticized the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan for not being stringent enough in its affordability requirements.
Cuomo has called the tax free zone plan the «boldest economic development program for upstate New York ever.»
United for Affordable NYC said it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.
Today, Mr. de Blasio seeks to pass a mandatory inclusionary zoning plan for the entire city, and has wedded it to a set of alterations to existing codes that would let developers build without concern for creating parking or keeping their construction in context with the area.
Melissa Mark - Viverito, the City Council speaker, announced a revised zoning plan at City Hall on Monday.
Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.
Meanwhile, aldermen voted to seek bids for an update of the citywide zoning plan, which has not been reworked in 35 years.
Under a revised zoning plan unveiled Monday at Albany City Hall, that number would be cut down to one.
She also proposed creating a new zoning plan to protect neighborhoods that feature primarily single - family row houses, including Maspeth and Ridgewood.
The Bronx Borough Board this week shot down two controversial zoning plans designed to spur the development of affordable housing, citing fears that accelerating gentrification will force out local residents.
We only ask, having just ploughed through the Department of the Environment's first ever guidance on coastal zone planning.
But Congress» committee, assuming it works, wouldn't even rescue the red zone plans, much less the remaining 1,200.
GARMENT DISTRICT — A newly - formed committee will bring city officials and Garment District «stakeholders» together to revamp a proposed zoning plan that critics have argued could «devastate» the industry.
Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who represents East Harlem, has proposed an alternative zoning plan for the area that would call for a 30 percent AMI affordable option and for half of new housing to be be affordable.
Under de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing zoning plan, new construction would have to include a certain number of permanently affordable housing units.
Real Affordability for All, a coalition of tenant and antipoverty organizations, embraced the mayor's 10 - year zoning plan.
Diaz Jr.'s increasing outspokenness against de Blasio's affordable housing - related zoning plans has also flamed more speculation that Diaz may be preparing to challenge de Blasio in 2017.
Incorporate reefs of low vulnerability or susceptibility to ocean acidification into MPA zoning plans during development or routine review.
Rose Community Foundation Newsletter, Connections: Education Committee grants approach Aurora school innovation from different angles RCF explores the importance of community organizations» involvement in the Innovation Zone Plans and increasing family engagement with those plans.
In 1929, the Texas Appellate Court declared this residential segregation unconstitutional, and City Council rejected the planning commission's racial zoning plan, but it was too late.
Additional teaching staff next year will help manage class sizes at the elementary level, through the continued implementation of the flex zone plan, and at Van Antwerp Middle School.
However, that decision did leave a gigantic hole in my Kill Zone plans.
School zone planning: If you want to send your kids to a specific school outside of your district, consider sending them to a daycare near that school.
According to the Marqutte County Zoning plan, both townships currently do not have any zoning regulations.
Zoned Planned Retirement Congregate Housing Community, the site plan will never expire.
Manhattan became the third borough to reject de Blasio's ambitious zoning plans for the construction of more affordable housing.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked local government leaders from around upstate New York help him convince the legislature to approve his tax free zone plan.
The Real Estate Board of New York and the Partnership for New York City, two powerful business groups, are throwing their weight behind the de Blasio administration's citywide zoning plan.
«We have a problem,» says Fabian Bedne, a Nashville district council member and a sponsor of a city bill that proposes a new zoning plan to increase the supply of affordable housing.
«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»
Integrate coral reef management with land - use and coastal zone planning and practices to reduce pollutant inputs (notably, ammonium compounds, nitrogen and sulphur oxides) that increase the acidity of local waters.
it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.
The FHWA works with state and local transportation officials and industry groups to promote improvements in work zone planning and design, increased law enforcement near work zones, enhanced worker training and heightened awareness among drivers.
Ms. Brewer, normally a de Blasio ally, embraced the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan with major caveats: namely, requirements that would limit the tallest buildings to the widest streets, steps to preserve rowhouse blocks, a ban on any kind of segregation by income in the new buildings and expanding the program to encompass both more low and more middle - income earners.
A year later, the city unanimously approved a zoning plan streamlining the development process for all firms involved.
Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he's against allowing an apartment building of up to 17 stories in Inwood at the corner of Broadway and Sherman Ave. Barring last minute changes, the Council is now expected to vote to reject the zoning plan Tuesday.
A spokesman for United for Affordable NYC said Friday the group would also wind down following the City Council's vote on de Blasio's zoning plans.
Faced with a neighborhood backlash against his zoning plans for affordable housing, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio went to a Bronx church to pitch his plan as a needed bulwark against New York becoming a «gilded city.»
But one member who declined to be identified said the administration has already begun offering deals «on unrelated items» to get the Council on board with the zoning plans.
During an appearance on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show on Friday, Mayor de Blasio said his zoning plans are informed by what he saw as a lack of city regulation and planning in places like Williamsburg and Bedford - Stuyvesant.
Bed - Stuy and Sheepshead Bay / Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn have also taken aim at the zoning plans, as have boards repping the Upper West Side, Harlem and Midtown in Manhattan.
CITY HALL — Now that the City Council has overwhelmingly approved Mayor Bill de Blasio's zoning plans, the fight for affordable housing shifts to the city's neighborhoods.
During a Tuesday appearance on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, de Blasio's planning chief, Weisbrod, said of Wednesday's City Planning Commission hearing and the zoning plans, «We expect to hear a lot of comments on all sides of this issue.»
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